Patriarca Crime Family Mafia Captain Anthony “The Saint” St. Laurent Sr admitted his guilt in a high-profile organized crime case Thursday and signed off on a deal that is being used by prosecutors in another mob extortion case involving Luigi “baby shacks” Manocchio. Reports Tim White for WPRI Video

Certainly whenever the FBI working as well as they do can take down a captain in La Cosa Nostra, that is obviously a significant event,” said Rhode Island U.S. Attorney Peter Neronha after the hearing.